Ruyi
, my sweetheart, is determined to marry my elder sister.
The elder sister ran away overnight after hearing the news, and I sat in the sedan chair and got what I wanted.
Who would have thought that on the night of the wedding, the news of the elder sister’s death came to the palace.
Hearing this, my sweetheart coughed up a mouthful of thick blood.
When the husband and wife were supposed to worship each other, they splashed my red veil.
My elder sister should be like this. She is a female general with outstanding military exploits in Muzhou. The news of
her death in battle did not come early or late, but on my happy day, the red thing turned white.
Hearing the news, the four were in an uproar.
But I was calm and determined, not forgetting to whisper, “Wang Ye, go on, don’t let the good time pass.”
It seems that the dead on the battlefield are just cats and dogs on the roadside, which have nothing to do with me.
Qi Huaian raised his trembling and cold hand, stopped his fingertips in front of me, and suddenly pulled off my red veil.
Without this shelter, the anger and pain in his eyes went straight to the innocence of my eyes. It was full of
guests and friends, and the focus fell on my face.
A moment later, I laughed. “Why is Wang Yeh so impatient?”
I bent down, picked up the red veil, covered it back myself, and tidied it up decently.
“After worshipping heaven and earth, Ruyi will be your man. It won’t take long.” Pulling at the red silk,
I approached him with small steps. I gritted my teeth and whispered, “Is it possible that Wang Yeh is going to hit the Ying family in the face, hit my sister in the face whose body is not yet cold?”
He puffed out his cheeks and said nothing after all. After
a while, we bent down together. When
the forehead touches the forehead, the ceremony is done. On the night of
flowers and candles, in the empty boudoir, I covered my head with a red veil and waited for Qi Huaian for an hour. The
footsteps crisscrossed back and forth outside the house, but they were full of boys and girls waiting for jokes to see how the bride was alone in the boudoir. “Princess, do you want the maidservant to look for it?” Asked
the servant, who could not wait any longer.
“No, don’t bother Wang Yeh doing something serious.” Of course
I know what his business is, and I know what my business is at the moment. I couldn’t
see what was in front of me, so I touched it here and there, and finally caught the cold pole. Shaking at the spring willow,
I tried to hand it to her: “Here, help me.”
She was at a loss: “How can maidservant help the princess?”
“Help me lift the veil so I know what it’s like to be the bride of a prince.”
This is my business.
Chunliu knelt down in a panic, kowtowed repeatedly, and shouted over and over again, “The maidservant dare not, the princess will kill the maidservant, the princess will kill the maidservant..” As soon as
she shouted, she knocked, and the sound was louder and louder, which made my heart ache.
I smiled bitterly under the red veil until the corners of my mouth trembled. “But I’m the bride. Do you really want the bride to reveal herself?”
My nose was sour, and the spring willow was still knocking, knocking, and she cried out first. As soon as
she began to cry, I became even more annoyed, so I gave her another job:
“Look for all the paper in the room and send it to Wang Yeh. Don’t tell him that he doesn’t have enough to burn. It will not live up to his friendship and delay his serious business.”
When Chunliu heard this, he added a noisy head and got up and ran away.
It’s really interesting that when someone else gets married, it’s a moment of spring night.
I get married, but it’s like going to a grave. I’m just a stone tablet, and I’ve been knocked and knocked.
That night, Qi Huaian was not idle either. He burned paper outside the house all night and looked at the moon all night. Before I
left the capital, my elder sister promised me,
“If I don’t come back from this trip, I will turn into a bright moon in the sky and watch the moon every night. I will never be lonely.”
This was clearly not said to him, but he stole it and used it as his future obsession. On
the second day of the wedding, Qi Huaian impatiently changed his wedding robe into a plain one. Dressed in white,
he ordered people to set up a spirit tablet in the hall of the palace overnight.
It says, “This is what a wife should do.”.
“Then who am I?”
I was wearing a spooky red dress, which was the wedding dress of yesterday’s worship hall, and asked questions behind him. Sleepless
all night, my eyes boil red, touch the main hall of Wangfu, but once again by the burning pain of this spirit.
Wearing this suit and standing in front of the servants of the palace, I threw my face under my feet.
I seemed to be telling the whole house that after the wedding night, I was still packed up, and I was the perfect body when I entered the house.
He ignored me and stared at my elder sister’s name.
The spirit tablets are all better looking than me, and that’s the wife he recognized and married by the emperor. I
‘m a fake. I’m an imposter.
After a while, he pointed out that I was all red and bright, and said to the man at random, “Take it.”
The guards looked at each other, but no one came forward.
“Ben Wang said to strip it!”
Finally, they decided to be loyal to their master and to this humiliating command.
“What are you going to do? I’ll take it off myself.” I stopped the approaching men and unbuttoned the first button.
Then, the second, the third.. The more
I untied, the more my hands trembled.
The last one, I trembled for a long time, and my long fingernails were entangled with silk thread. With a cruel pull,
my fingernails broke and split, and the sound of silk tearing swung in front of my sister’s spirit tablet.
The wedding robe finally fell to the ground loosely, hanging the blood of my fingertips, gathering at my feet, like a pool of thick blood.
“Is it still going on?” I asked Qi Huaian. My
hand rested on the collar of my underwear, and I teased him in a deliberate tone:
“How can Wang Yeh be lazy? You’re a newlywed, and you’re a wedding candle. This dress should have been taken off by Wang Yeh..”
“Shame on you.” He went out in a huff, but stopped in front of the door and turned his back to me. “In the future, you can stay here or go back to the General’s Office.”
“But even if you stay,” he added, “if you stay in the palace, you’re just a concubine.” The name on the
tablet is his wife.
“Three teas, six ceremonies, eight palanquins, and a concubine at home.” I clapped my hands behind him and said, “Wang Yeh is really a big hand.”
He looked back and glared at my smile, which was not pleasing to the eye. “The princess is in mourning. You can kneel down here for a day.” What kind of concubine
is she?
I spat in my heart that she would rather die than marry you.
I don’t kneel.
At first, I just didn’t kneel down, but later, I disliked the bad luck of the spirit tablet in the main hall of the palace, so I simply asked someone to remove it.
Not long after, Qi Huaian took the initiative to come to my room for the first time.
Of course, it’s asking for punishment.
At that time, I was sitting at the table concentrating on embroidering Mandarin ducks.
Ever since I knew I was going to marry Qi Huaian, I began to embroider this veil, thinking about what it would look like when he put it around his waist.
Now, short of the last piece of duckweed, it is done.
Unfortunately, this pair of Mandarin ducks is in the way of Qi Huaian’s eyes.
He snatched it, tore it to pieces, and threw it at his feet, wishing he could add two more feet and grind it into the soil. Annoyed,
I raised my head and stared at him. Undaunted,
Chi huai-an even leaned closer and pinched my chin. “You’re a little more fierce, a little more fierce. You’re more like your sister.”
I blinked, took my eyes away, brushed his hands away, squatted down to pick up the broken handkerchiefs, and gathered them into the palm of my hand one by one.
“Wang Ye, I’ve thought about it, but I’d better not be a concubine.” I hung my head and made light of it.
That night, I changed into black clothes, packed up my things, and went back to the General’s Office.
Who would have thought that when the sedan had only gone halfway, there would be the sound of hooves behind it, swift, turbulent, and unreasonable.
Someone stopped my car and lifted the curtain of my sedan chair. It was Qi Huaian.
He stopped the sedan-chair bearer and looked at me for a long time. The
bony hand suddenly reached in, and the fingertips ran down my cheek, up my jaw, and dragged my face up.
“The king has changed his mind.” After
a while, he smiled with amusement and trickery.
In me, he seemed to find some kind of self-consolation.
Qi Huaian’s idea was changed, and I had no choice but to accept it and get out of the sedan chair honestly.
“Come up and go home.” He held out his hand to me on the red-maned horse.
I dare not answer it.
He hated that iron didn’t make steel, so he bent over me and held me at the waist. “If only you could be as capable as your elder sister..”
Not to mention 10%, in his eyes, I can’t even compare with such a little finger.
“It’s all right. It’s enough to have a similar face.”
He laid me across the horse’s back, with one hand on the reins and the other around my waist to keep me from falling. “Ruyi,”
he said, “you’ve almost made Ben Wang mistake you for someone else several times today.”
That night, Qi Huai’an finally remembered that we were newlyweds and should sleep together in the same bed.
I was forced to a corner of the bed by him and shivered with the quilt.
“What are you shaking about? Is it cold?” He scooped my face and pressed closer.
Then he took a mouthful of wine, covered my lips with it, and poured the pungent liquor into my lips and teeth: “Wine is the warmest.”
I have never been able to stand such a hot, choking cough repeatedly, red in the face. Seeing this,
Chi Huai-an burst out laughing. He held me in his arms and patted me on the back. Suddenly he froze his smile and said in a deep voice, “Her body under the loess of the Northern Qiang is very cold, I think.” It is
said that he is a spoiler, but he is deeply affectionate and touching. In
silence, he poured all the wine into his mouth.
It seemed that as long as he was so obsessed with his mind, he could really deceive himself that he was warming up with his elder sister’s red candle.
“She has such good talent and good looks, but I don’t covet them.” With the wine in his heart, Chi Huai’an spoke from the bottom of his heart. “If so, I might have forgotten that more than ten years ago, in the harem, she was holding a sword like that to save my mother and concubine from danger.”. The first time I saw her on the long street, I recognized her. As
his drunkenness deepened, he called up such a name.
Calling, Qi Huaian’s hand pressed on my weak shoulder, my shoulder that could not lift the knife and gun.
One more push, and I’ll fish for him.
“Elder sister’s new funeral is not appropriate.” At
such a moment, I took out his words and held them against his strong chest to stop him from moving: “According to the rules, I want to mourn for my eldest sister.”
“How long have you been mourning?” He asked, reeking of alcohol.
“How long has Wang Yeh been in mourning?” I asked in reply. No one
in the capital doesn’t know that Prince Bao never pays attention to rules. When the late emperor died, I did not mourn.
He still wanted to attack, and I slipped under his arm like a fish and ran away barefoot.
If so.. If so.. Behind
me, he was chanting like a curse.
Since then, I have been the only comfort for his restless night.
This consolation stems from the fact that my face is nine points like my elder sister. How can a sister born of a mother not look like her?
Even in his eyes, the rest, I am not even as good as this.
Oh, yeah, a little bit like that.-I won’t let him touch it.
He didn’t force me to come, but soon, he seemed to lose interest in me.
Maybe I am too soft and waxy, and I am not as strong and cool as my elder sister.
Qi Huaian quickly found the next target. By the time
I knew it, the boys had already begun to arrange for the girl to enter the house.
I hid behind the door of the main hall and looked at her quietly. It was strange that she didn’t look like her elder sister at all.
The elder sister’s face was thin and cold, which was the edges and corners of the wind and sand in the north, but the girl was round and looked lucky.
Don’t hide here, go out and look. Your eldest sister can kill countless enemies. Why don’t you dare to see anyone?
I was still caught by Qi Huaian, who twisted my neck, like a cat, and insisted on pulling me out of the house.
I struggled and refused to go, so he simply picked me up and put me upright in front of the girl.
“This is Princess Baoqin. You kneel down to her and give her a big gift.”
He introduced me, obviously in the back, he always said I was a concubine.
The girl was stupefied, knelt down, straightened her back, looked at my eyes, full of disdain and dislike.
“Kneel deeper.” Qi Huaian pressed her head with one hand until she put her forehead against the stone brick.
He was finally satisfied: “That’s how you look like a princess.”
Then his valet told me.
The girl was recovered from the theater by Qi Huaian.
“She plays Hua Mulan, the woman general in the old book who took her father’s place in the army.”
The boy mimed,
“She’s playing with a sword and a spear on the stage. She’s really like a general. She looks like she’s been to the battlefield and killed people. It makes Wang Yeh look straight at her.”
So it is.
Qi Huaian is really infatuated with my elder sister.
Unfortunately, the more infatuated, the more funny. How could
he not know that my elder sister would rather run away from marriage than go to the battlefield to risk her life for the sake of Yin Qingshan, the general guarding the frontier, and the bright moonlight that led her forward.
She fought bravely against the enemy, regardless of her own safety, with new wounds and old scars, in the final analysis, just to save her sweetheart.
That night, I saw the shadow of Mulan, my new favorite girl, and the shadow of her soft sword in her hand reflected on the paper window.
“How can you kill people when you are so soft and full of tricks?” Qi Huaian leaned on the couch and spoke discontentedly.
“Doesn’t Wang Yeh like a slave’s family to be soft?” She wriggled at the waist, and her shadow grew smaller and smaller.
After a while, she shrank into Chi Huai’an’s arms on the soft couch. “How can a woman really fight and kill? What does she look like?” As soon as
Qi Huaian kicked her foot, she was caught off guard and rolled from the couch to the ground, covering her waist in pain and wailing.
The so-called actor, acting is just so so, so that I am tired of watching the play.
A gust of cold wind, mixed with catkins into the nasal cavity, I sneezed. The body on the
couch straightened up at once. “Who’s out there?”
When I turned to run, Chi Huai’an’s voice came out again: “Ruyi?”
“Not as you wish!” I shouted and went into the path to hide in the plum blossom forest. The door
behind him opened, and he continued to shout jokingly, “Where did that little thief come from?”? Don’t let me catch her, or I’ll fix her. Late
at night, I curled up in bed alone.
There was a man whose warm palm was on my forehead.
I opened my eyes alertly, and Thunderbolt took out the dagger under the pillow and aimed it at him.
Through the moonlight to see the face, I found that it was Qi Huaian.
My hand trembled and the dagger fell to the ground. He laughed.
“I thought I couldn’t hold the dagger. I didn’t want you, the little white rabbit, to have sharp claws.”
His tone was full of surprise, as if I could use a dagger, which was three more points like my elder sister.
I turned to my side with a red face and covered my head with a quilt. “Why is the prince here? Is Mulan’s waist not soft enough?”
“When I hear you outside, I’m afraid you’re sick, and I’m afraid that even if you’re not sick, you’ll kick the quilt at night and make yourself sick again.”
“There’s no need for Wang Yeh to take care of it.” As soon as the
words came out of my mouth, I realized I had made a slip of the tongue. I covered my mouth and said, “What’s going on outside the house?”? Where did the noise come from?
Qi Huaian smiled and sat on the bed, lifting my quilt to arch inside.
I pushed him, but he was so weak that I had no strength at all. “Don’t let the bride stay in her boudoir,” I said, “and go to her room.”
“Ruyi, you should love me.” He grabbed my hands in an unreasonable way. “I kick the quilt in the cold at night. I need someone to watch me. Don’t look back and tell me I’m sick.”
I bit my lip to suppress a smile and said, “So, Wang Ye, don’t you have to fix that little thief?”
“Fix it now.” The voice did not fall, his hands fell on my waist, itching me to roll with laughter. In the middle of the
night, I felt empty.
Looking, Qi Huaian stood alone beside the bed, facing the direction of the waning moon.
“If you are greedy for the cold, no one will be able to look down on Wang Yeh.” I sat up. I knew what he was looking at. It wasn’t just the moon. It was his white moonlight. He should be.
“Her coffin will return to Beijing next month.” Chi Huai-an’s throat choked. “I don’t know if I’m lucky enough to be able to take her body to the Chi family’s grave.” Why don’t
you ask her if she wants to enter your grave?
I thought in my heart that you were desperate to protect her life, but she was desperate to go to the battlefield just to protect another person’s life.
Soon, as he wished, the coffin of the elder sister returned to Beijing. Come back
together, unexpectedly also have long elder sister’s sweetheart, Yin Qingshan.
It was the first time he returned to Beijing after five years of absence.
He returned against his will.
Many years ago, Yin Qingshan disobeyed military orders. After the truce between the two countries, he entered the enemy camp alone without authorization and killed dozens of enemy troops. Longyan was furious and ordered him to guard the frontier for life and not to return to Beijing.
Now, at the risk of the death penalty of resisting the decree, he had to go through this.
It so happened that Miss Mulan suddenly fell seriously ill that day, and I was at a loss what to do, so I had no choice but to go outside the palace to wait for Qi Huai’an. I
didn’t wait for him to come down, but I waited for Yin Qingshan first.
At the first sight of me, the iron-boned general’s eyes were wet.
He was in a panic, not knowing whether to salute first, or to congratulate first, or just to talk about the old days and the things about his elder sister.
Later, it was I who first saluted: “I have received the letter from the general.”
I leaned close and whispered in his ear, “What you said in your letter is true, isn’t it?”
He trembled and did not answer me. Laughing to myself,
I said, “Brother Aoyama, can you tell me how my elder sister has been eating and drinking recently? Does she miss me? Do you have anything to say to me?”
Yin Qingshan still did not answer me. After a while, he forced out a sentence: “I..” I miss the princess very much. Even if you are thousands of miles away, you still want the princess to be safe and have no worries.
My heart missed a beat. “Anything else?”
Before the words were out of his mouth, Chi Huai-an’s voice came from behind him: “Ruyi, I’m going home.”
I walked with him, but it seemed that a stone had fallen from my feet. The weight of a thousand catties forced me to return three times in one step.
I walked half a mile with Qi Huaian’s sedan chair, but Yin Qingshan caught up with me.
In the face of my burning eyes, he gritted his teeth and said to me,
“I have committed a major crime by disobeying the decree and entering the capital without authorization.”. However, if I can see that the princess is all right now, it will be worth it to be put on the Meridian Gate and beheaded tomorrow. With a calm face,
Qi Huai’an took my thin shoulder and put my head into his chest.
My hand loosened and the curtain of the sedan chair fell. The
sedan chair took another stick of incense, and I poked my head out again and looked back.
Yin Qingshan, riding an old horse, was still there, facing the direction of my departure, unable to move for a long time.
Back at the house, Qi Huai’an turned his face and said nothing.
I tugged at the corner of his coat and urged him to go and see Miss Mulan, who was seriously ill in bed.
He threw me away and said angrily,
“Aren’t you supposed to be happy that she’s dead?”? No one will ever compete with you for your husband. You’re so virtuous, you won’t be jealous?
“Come on, she’s very sick..” I pulled him again.
“Since Yin Ching-shan wants to be beheaded, it would be better for the king to comply with his wish.” Qi Huaian clenched his teeth and ferociously scurried out this inexplicable sentence.
I was stunned and let go of my hand. How can
some things be hidden? “The way he looks at you,” Chi Huai-an said coldly, “is the same as when I look at your elder sister.”
“You’re wrong. Wang Yeh’s eyes are never very good.” I muttered and ran away with a guilty conscience.
The next day, I took Chunliu to the shop to choose satin as a gift for the women’s families in various mansions this spring.
I always feel that someone is looking at me behind me, but when I look back, I can’t notice any movement. Pointing to one of the horses
, Chunliu said, “The landscape pattern woven with gold thread is so beautiful that it suits our princess best.”
I inquired about the price and said, “It looks good, but it’s too expensive. It’s almost half a month’s salary for my father.” After
picking a few horses, we went home.
On the way, I heard the old horse’s hoofbeats again.
I looked back, Yin Qingshan travel-stained, holding a piece of satin in his arms, which was the part of the sky-high price.
“I remember my sister..” He quickly and clumsily changed his tune: “I remember that the princess likes blue, so I came a long way and didn’t prepare a gift, so I just bought a bolt of satin.”
The frontier is bitter and cold, and the army’s pay is meager. I know that this is enough for him to empty his savings over the years.
“My sister likes blue, too. The general can’t go back empty-handed. Why don’t you give this satin to my sister?”
“But the princess..”
He wanted to say a few more words, but I stopped him thinking, “The prince is waiting for me at home.” As
a prophecy, Qi Huai’an is really waiting for me.
I glanced at Chunliu, and she hung her head quickly.
Come to think of it, she said what happened today.
“Who do you think you are, a precious princess?” Chi huai-an pinched my face and made me feel pain. “You’re just an unqualified stand-in. You don’t even look like her.”
With these words, he pulled me to the courtyard where he practiced martial arts. With
a clang, Qi Huaian threw an iron sword at my feet. It was
not the “Mulan” girl who danced a beautiful soft sword, but the one with a blade that could pierce a person’s chest or even armor. Instinctively,
I retreated, but Qi Huaian blocked my escape, blocked me firmly behind me, and imprisoned me in his arms.
“Pick it up.” He ordered me with a cold voice.
I kept shaking my head. “I won’t..”
“This is the sword she used to practice before she died. Be obedient, Ruyi. Listen for once and pick it up.” Chi Huai-an changed his tactics, and his voice, which had been cold, suddenly became gentle, coaxing me to do what he wanted. “You pick it up and wave it twice, just wave it twice.”
Then what?
Then I’m more like the elder sister, aren’t I? I can ask him to comfort me more?
I still shook my head and refused to pick it up. He grabbed my hand and forced me to bend down. Then he leaned close to my ear and said, “Ruyi, if you’re obedient, I won’t take Yin Qingshan’s book and keep his life.”
Threats? He’s really using both the carrot and the stick.
“Can you guarantee that he will return to the frontier safe and sound?”
“I can.” He promised.
I knew that my question would only make Qi Huaian more angry, but I had to ask him for a promise. When I got it
, I followed his wishes and picked up the iron sword that had really killed people.
“You wave twice.”
“I can’t.”
“You try.”
I had a terrible headache. I wanted to throw away the sword, but Qi Huaian held my hand tightly.
I shook my head desperately, but the more I shook, the more I had a splitting headache.
Seeing the armor scattered on the ground beside me, I know that everything is not over yet, Qi Huaian will ask me to put on the armor, he wants to dress me up, he wants to dress me up like this.
“Let me go!” I finally swung my sword, but I cut his arm hard and stumbled away. “Why,”
he sighed disappointedly, “are you worse than your elder sister? But why?” In
the back, I can’t hear any more.
Qi Huaian is not wrong. I am not even as good as Chengdu.
Unlike me, she is a tiger girl. She has excellent martial arts skills since childhood. She has a good ability to lead the troops to fight. She is a hundred times better than men in the court.
Two years ago, in the autumn, she rode a red-maned horse with a high ponytail and walked down the long street, which attracted the attention of countless young men.
Passing through the busy city, the Rouge she bought for me in her arms fell to the ground.
She used the scabbard to pick up the chin of a passing young man at random. She smiled brightly from a commanding position and ordered, “Little Lang Jun, pick it up for me.”
Unfortunately, the man she picked was Prince Bao Qi Huaian.
Qi Huaian raised his head, did not speak, bent his knees and half knelt, but his eyes always lingered between the eyebrows and eyes of his elder sister.
This is his rare knees, usually in the court, he does not even kneel to the emperor.
“Thank me with what?” After getting up, Qi Huaian saved the Rouge and refused to let go. Smiling,
the elder sister took the long sword and snatched it from his hand.
“Keep it on credit first, young man.”. Tomorrow I will leave Beijing. If I have the chance to return, you can spend a few months at the general’s office to ask for help.
“I’m afraid the young lady can’t afford what I ask for.” Qi Huaian narrowed his eyes and planned an offensive three months later.
So much so that he did not see it. In the sedan chair not far behind my elder sister, I lifted the curtain and looked at him in a trance.
Three months later, the elder sister returned triumphantly with a new wound.
Qi Huai’an really came to the general’s office, but it was not thanks, but people.
He thought the elder sister was good at Rouge.
So in order to change the elder sister’s favor, he packed all the Rouge shops in the capital, and sent the red and pink lipstick to the general’s office one by one.
The elder sister stood outside the mansion in a military uniform, with her hair scattered, covering the knife wound on the back of her neck.
Seeing this, she laughed heartily and hurried to accept all comers.
Apart from a few boxes left for me to play with, the rest were shipped to the barracks for people to use casually to draw on the land of the teaching field.
Little Lang Jun, with so much money, why don’t you give me some more provisions. There are tens of thousands of people in the barracks waiting to eat meat. She
even reached out and asked Qi Huai’an for more.
Qi Huaian did not answer her, but only a few days later, the court ordered that the rations and salaries of this season in the barracks should be increased by 50%.
“What does Miss Ying need?” He has a lot of confidence.
The elder sister was also not polite, and brought up the trouble in the house:
“I have a younger sister in the family, and I want to find a good family.”
“If the elder sister is still waiting for her daughter, who dares to propose marriage to the younger sister?”
Worthy of being a powerful minister who can shake three times in a word, Qi Huaian easily turned against the army.
Then one time he met me on the long street.
“Sister in law, are you looking for a good family?” He called me, blushing my face for no reason.
“Who is your sister-in-law?”
“From now on we’ll all be family,” he teased me as he studied my hanging head. “Why are you blushing?”
I took to my heels.
No, it soon became a family, but it was not the way he wanted.
But there is also one thing that is difficult for Qi Huaian to handle.
Long elder sister led the north Qiang eve, Huaian qi kneeling at the gate of the palace for a whole night. The only thing
he wants is to marry my eldest sister and be his precious princess.
He thought that as long as he did this, his elder sister would be able to escape the blind swords and guns on the battlefield forever, and would be safe and happy forever. When
my father heard this, he was so anxious that he couldn’t stand still, so he went to kneel down with him outside the palace gate and coaxed him back.
The elder sister, however, seemed to have nothing to do. As usual, she performed the sword dance in the mansion and trained on the teaching field.
“How can a big man die on his knees?”
She paid no attention to Qi Huai’an, and her sword was unsheathed, referring to the northeast, the battlefield where she was about to go to war.
Qi Huai’an knelt down until dawn, when the emperor finally came out. He kowtowed piously and said, “I beg your majesty to save the life of my sweetheart.”
“When will I take the life of your sweetheart?”
“General Ying is doomed to send troops to the north this time..”
The emperor understood at once and laughed wildly. “Huai’an, you want to control the tiger.”
How touching.
Tut, it’s just a pity.
Qi Huaian didn’t know, the elder sister’s sword, in addition to the northern Qiang, is the general Yin Qingshan guarding the frontier, is the bright moonlight that leads her forward, is the person she desperately wants to guard.
Soon, His Majesty’s edict was issued. The daughter of the
Ying family was promised to Prince Bao as a concubine. Hearing the news,
the elder sister changed into a military uniform overnight, drove a fast horse to escape from the capital, and went north.
Qi Huaian knelt down for six hours, but in the end he only got me to marry for my sister. In the end, he knelt me back to his house.
Qi Huai’an married me, but he didn’t treat me well. After I took the sword
that day, I had a high fever, which was not good.
Qi Huaian invited a batch of famous doctors to change, but my breath is getting weaker and weaker, and my body is becoming more and more superficial. The imperial physician in the
palace also came and said that I was frightened and had a heart disease, so it was so difficult to cure.
A sword can frighten people so much that Qi Huaian couldn’t figure it out.
He would rather put it down to the fact that they were all quacks who could not cure the precious princess whom he called “a treasure.”.
My father also came to take me back to the General’s Office.
Chi Huai-an refused. Without saying a word, my father knelt down to this son-in-law and said, “I don’t have a daughter anymore, and now Ruyi is the only one left.”
At this point, he had no choice but to help my father up, salute him, and tell him something about the past
: More than ten years ago, my mother’s concubine was still a beauty who could not be ranked. She asked the then imperial concubine Qian to find a mistake. She wanted to drag my mother’s concubine away and Lynch her to death while my father was not in the palace. Fortunately, it happened that my mother-in-law brought Rushi to the palace to visit the imperial concubine. Rushi was young at that time, but he was extremely brave. For the sake of justice, he grabbed the sword of the bodyguard and stayed outside the house of my mother, who had never met before, and did not allow anyone to set foot in it. Finally, the queen mother came and saved my mother’s life.
This time, it was Chi Huai’an’s turn to kneel down and make a big gift to my father:
“My father-in-law’s family saved my mother’s life, but I failed to take good care of her.”
“Daddy.” I was burning in a daze. When I heard the sound, I couldn’t wait to wave my hand and try to catch my father. “Dad, don’t take the sword..” Don’t go to war, don’t kill..
“Okay, okay, no, we don’t.”
I want to go home.. Don’t stay here, don’t stay on the frontier, let’s go home..
“Okay, okay, go home.”
My father is old, and he doesn’t have the power to gallop on the battlefield in those days. I can hear him choking.
18
Back to the General’s Office, my condition is getting better.
But when I secretly told my father that my eldest sister was not dead, he shook his head and said, “Ruyi, you’re burning up.”
How can it be burning confused? I don’t have a high fever.
I told him that it was all true. Yin Qingshan wrote me a letter early in the morning, telling me that it was my elder sister’s plan. She was tired of fighting on the battlefield early in the morning, so she had to die, so that she could stay in the frontier and live with her sweetheart Yin Qingshan for a lifetime.
Dad shook his head and sighed, but he said, “Yes, that’s right. It’s Dad who is confused. Dad is old and has forgotten about this.”
My heart missed a beat.
I suddenly strung together, Yin Qingshan’s dodge, my father’s prevarication. I couldn’t hold back my
tears: … Brother Aoyama lied to me. Did he lie to me?
“No, Ruyi. No one is lying to you. It’s my father who is confused.”
Sister.. My sister is really dead, isn’t she? That letter was just a lie to me.
“If she’s not dead, if she’s really not dead, dad’s burning, dad’s burning.” My father was in a hurry to argue for fear that I would be sad in my illness and add to my heart.
When I opened my eyes to look at him, I found that his old face under his white hair was already full of tears.
I could no longer deceive myself and pretend to believe. That night, I was burning even worse, and I kept talking nonsense.
I called his name, and I said I knew, I knew what was going on.
I said you come back, you don’t die, I miss you so much.
Qi Huaian soon heard the news and came. He held my hand and pressed it to his face:
“Ruyi, Ruyi, as long as you get better, I won’t force you to do anything. I’ll treat you well. You don’t have to be like anyone else. You are Ruyi, the princess of Baoqin..”
I opened my mouth and said, “So..” Who on earth did we do wrong? How did it end up like this?
At night, Yin Qingshan also came.
My father wouldn’t let him in at first, but Qi Huaian was magnanimous and took the initiative to welcome him out.
But as soon as he opened the door, a knife was put to his neck.
“Do you know what you’ve done?” Yin Qingshan’s hand holding the knife burst blue veins, and he raised it high and waved it hard.
Eventually, it stopped half an inch beside Qi Huaian’s cheek and cut off his forelock.
“Ruyi is most afraid of these things. Why do you insist on her?”
He took a long breath and sighed helplessly, “Do you know why I was punished to guard the frontier all my life?”
Yin Qingshan then asked for a pot of wine and talked about a past event.
About ten years ago, my father led the whole family to the border to reward the armed forces.
It was at that time that Yin Qingshan was able to meet the daughter of the Ying family, one of whom was so heroic that he was not used to seeing her, while the other was so quiet and delicate that he was fascinated by her.
He was born in a family of generals in the frontier. He had suffered from the wind and frost of the loess since he was a child. He was used to fighting and killing. Where had he seen such a quiet and weak girl? He immediately gave birth to the tenderness of an iron man.
Who expected good times, the enemy robbed my mother, because they can’t get the chips they want, the enemy a group of people in front of my family, in front of the tower will kill my mother.
“At that time, Ruyi had an illness like this. General Ying took her back to Beijing for medical treatment. Before she left, she took my hand and begged me to avenge her.” Yin Qingshan said as he poured wine.
Qi Huai’an then understood: “Then, after the two armies negotiated peace, you did not hesitate to disobey the emperor’s order to get rid of the evil people who had hurt Mrs. Ying.”
“Yes.” Yin Ching-shan nodded, “The next time I saw Ruyi was five years ago, when she went back to the frontier to pay her respects to her mother.”. After that incident, she became even more delicate and pitiful, but she could no longer see swords and weapons, nor could she see fighting and killing, for fear of being hurt by the scene.
Qi Huaian said no more.
Tomorrow, I will leave Beijing. I sent her an empty coffin, and early in the morning, according to her instructions, the body was buried under the loess of the frontier. Yin Qingshan patted him on the shoulder and said, I was afraid that Ruyi would be sad, so I lied to her that she was not dead. If you have the ability, help me cheat her for the rest of my life.
Qi Huai’an still comes to see me every day.
I asked him what he could do if Mulan couldn’t see him.
He said the man had been thrown out. “Oh,”
I said, pretending to be disappointed. “Then no one will be able to wield a knife or a gun.”
“Don’t look, don’t look and play with swords and guns.” He carefully bit the sound of the word “knife” and the word “gun,” for fear that if he said too much, it would turn into a knife in my heart and a gun in my heart.
I asked him again, “Wang Yeh is obsessed with his elder sister. Does he like the girl who saved the toffee in those days, or does he like the female general galloping on horseback on the long street?”
He thought for a long time, but finally hugged me and said nothing. Unrelenting,
I said, “Then Wang Ye, you say that General Yin is deeply in love. Is he thinking of the naive and ignorant young girl in the capital in those days, or is he thinking of the young lady in the General’s Office who can’t even catch a sword today?”
He still didn’t answer me.
I sighed. “But what if everything is upside down?”
Once upon a time, there was a fortune teller who said that I and Rushi were twin flowers.
One is strong, one is delicate, but after a storm, the strong one is wilted, and the delicate one is firm.
Can be strong or delicate, two flowers wrapped around a group of roots, one is gone, the other is doomed not to open for long.
Now that I think about it, it was Yin Qingshan’s letter that renewed my life for many months. In the days that
followed, Qi Huaian took care of me carefully, but my illness was not cured.
When I was dying, I told Qi Huai’an, “Go and find me a sword.”
He was stunned for a moment and didn’t ask anything. He really went to find one for me.
I got up from the bed, took the sword, turned the handle, and danced a sword flower. Everything seemed to go back to more than ten years ago.
I am still a high-spirited young lady of the General’s Office. My parents love me and protect me. My elder sister is gentle and quiet, and she can’t even stand up. When I was
a newborn calf, I learned martial arts from my father. I didn’t know the depth of heaven and earth, so I dared to see the rough road behind the harem and save the unloved concubines. Qi Huaian, the little prince
at that time, took the Mandarin duck veil embroidered by his mother as a thank-you gift for me, saying that his mother had said that whoever received the Mandarin duck veil would have to be a pair of Mandarin ducks singing harmoniously.
I didn’t answer. I said that I would embroider for my husband with my own hands in the future.
That was the first time I saw him.
I’m the first one to miss my whole life.
Unfortunately, soon after, the accident came unexpectedly.
My mother died tragically in the frontier, and both I and she suffered a great blow. The
difference is that since then, I have been very secretive about swords and far away from battlefield killing.
My elder sister should be like this, but she studied martial arts diligently and eventually became a heroine with great military exploits.
I am very tired. I can hardly hold the sword in my hand.
My breathing is getting weak and slow. With a hoarse voice,
I called out to Qi Huai’an, just strong enough to do the last thing: “Wang Ye, I have the veil I embroidered in my dowry. Will you go and get it for me?”
He settled me and trotted out in a hurry.
Take my Mandarin duck veil and make a pair of Mandarin ducks.
If so, it is also satisfactory.
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